Indicator: Age / Gender Profile

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What we know from research

What the data indicates about Mildura
The distribution of males and females across Mildura’s sub-regions is, as it was for the 2006 social indicators report, mostly within the range + or – 2% of Regional Victoria’s profile (49.2% males and 50.8 females). There exist some exceptions however. Again Wentworth is slightly above this range with 51.9% males and 48.1% females. New regions added to the Mildura Social Indicators for 2008 Mallee Track (51.4% males and 48.6% females) Millewa (53.2% males and 46.8% females) and Nangiloc/Colignan (57.4% males and 42.6% females) all to various degrees display a larger proportion of males to females also.

Overall the age distribution for the region follows a similar pattern to the pattern reported in the 2006 indicators with Ouyen again displaying the most variance against the sub-regions, regional Victoria and Melbourne. The Mallee Track also demonstrates a similar pattern to Ouyen throughout.

The range of the percentages of toddlers (under 5 years of age) has remained the same since 2006 from 4.8% to 7.9% to 3.9% to 7% but this range overall has slightly decreased. The Mallee Track has the smallest percentage of children under 5 (3.9%) and conversely the highest percentage of older people in the region (23.2%), closely followed by Ouyen (22.4%). With the exception of Greater Red Cliffs (7.3% - 5.1%), Ouyen (4.8% - 5.4%), and Merbein (7.2% - 5.5%) which all demonstrate some changes since the 2006 report, the remaining sub-regions were more or less consistent with regional Victoria and Melbourne for the very youngest age category. For the school age categories (5 – 19 years) the latest pattern is more or less consistent with the pattern displayed in the 2006 report. But for the Mallee Track (20.5%), again Ouyen (21.0%) has the lowest percentage of people in this age group in the region. Merbein (25.1%) and Irymple (26.2%) were again at the upper end of the range.

The percentage of the population in Regional Victoria aged 65 years or over has increased to 16% from 14.2% in the 2006 report. Greater Red Cliffs is the only sub-region in the district to be within + or – 1% of the figure for regional Victoria with an increase of 3.5% from the 2006 indicator. The other regions, with the extreme exceptions of the Mallee Track (23.2%) and Ouyen (22.4% up from 19.5%) demonstrate figures closer to the Melbourne figure and below, well below in the case of Nangiloc/Colignan (8.4%), with the proportions of other localities, that have not changed significantly, falling between Regional Victoria and Melbourne. In the middle category of 20 – 44 years Ouyen (23.0% from 27.4%) again, along with the Mallee Track (24.1%) has the lowest proportion of 20 to 44 year olds. For 45 – 64 year olds Ouyen however ranks 5th behind other regions and is much closer to the regional Victorian figure than it was in the 2006 report. Again Ouyen and the Mallee Track have the greatest proportion of people in the middle to later stages of life.

Of the over 65’s the number of women is proportionally higher than men in all of the localities in the region with the exception of Nangiloc/Colignan which has over double the percentage of males to females, a finding that has to be accompanied with some caution due to the very low numbers in that category.

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Last Updated: Wednesday, 29 July 2009